[423] Counter-tenor.
[424] Coursing the hare.
[425] The fore-man or fore-gallant of the morris led the other dancers, and was distinguished by a gayer dress.
[426] Cuddy’s anger arises from the unlucky question asked by the third clown; “How shall we do for a good hobby-horse?”—as he apparently expected, from his former celebrity in that respectable character, to have been appointed by acclamation.—Gifford.
[427] “Ka me, ka thee!” was an old proverb.
[428] Bird-bolt, arrow; perhaps more correctly “But-bolt,” as emendated by Gifford.
[429] Peas codlings; green peas.
[430] There is a break here in the quarto. It is suggested that the printer was unable to decipher the first word of the line in the manuscript.
[431] A children’s game, in which cherry-stones are pitched into a small hole. The suggestion was sometimes a less innocent one, however. Compare Herrick’s quatrain on “Cherry-pit.”
[432] Thus Butler: